In early summer, when Canada geese molt and briefly lose their ability to fly, volunteers and Kentucky Fish and Wildlife employees catch the birds and attach leg bands. The bands help researchers keep track of the range and population of the geese.

Volunteer Alexa Ferrell struggled to hold a squirming Canada goose before it was banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington. About 475 Canada geese were banded at the park and at a farm in Fayette County as part of a population study. Each year at this time in various locations around the state, when the geese are molting and unable to fly, they are rounded up, banded, their genders identified and quickly released. The project is directed by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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Canada geese were rounded up and banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A group of volunteers, led by members of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, corralwed a group of Canada geese Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A group of volunteers, led by members of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, corralwed a group of Canada geese Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A volunteer held a gosling to be banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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Volunteer Gavin Yates held a pair of goslings for banding Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington. When the geese are molting and unable to fly, they are rounded up, banded, their genders identified, and they are quickly released.
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Volunteer Jake Bicknell, 6, held a pair of goslings for banding Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington. When the geese are molting and unable to fly, they are rounded up, banded, their genders identified, and they are quickly released.
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John Brunjes, a wildlife biologist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, attached a band to a Canada goose Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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Volunteer Gavin Yates struggled to hold a Canada goose before it was banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A freshly banded Canada goose ran back to the lake after being banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A freshly banded Canada goose ran back to the lake after being banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A freshly banded Canada goose ran back to the lake after being banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A freshly banded Canada goose ran back to the lake after being banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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Volunteers, led by members of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, rounded up a group of Canada geese for banding Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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Volunteers, led by members of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, rounded up a group of Canada geese for banding Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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John Brunjes, a wildlife biologist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, passed a gosling to a volunteer for banding Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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Canada geese were rounded up and banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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Canada geese were rounded up and banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A Canada goose was released after its leg was banded Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A remote controlled boat and kayaker Bill Mitchell, a wildlife game management foreman with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, pushed a group of Canada geese towards shore Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington. Volunteers on shore caught the geese and banded them.
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Tom Edwards, a wildlife biologist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, used a kayak Tuesday to push a group of Canada geese towards shore, where a group of volunteers corralled them to be banded at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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A remote-controlled boat, operated by John Brunjes, a wildlife biologist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, helped to push Canada geese toward shore to be banded by a group of volunteers Tuesday at Jacobson Park in Lexington.
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In early summer, when geese enter their no-fly molt, Rocky Pritchert gathers volunteers and employees of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for two weeks of bird-banding throughout the state.

Pritchert, as migratory bird program coordinator, oversees the gender identification and banding of about 1,300 Canada geese.

This is the time of year when geese can't fly away because they're molting, or growing new feathers. Unlike other birds, which grow only some new feathers at a time and thus can continue to fly, geese grow theirs all at once and can't fly during molting.

During banding, a metal band is attached to one leg of each goose. Every band contains a unique number that identifies the geographic coordinates of its place of banding. Hunters and birders report the band number found on any downed goose to the U.S. Geological Survey Bird Banding Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

Banding the geese "helps biologists track population dynamics," said Derek Beard, regional coordinator of wildlife for the Bluegrass region of the Department of Fish and Wildlife. "They want to know: Is the population stable, or is it increasing or declining because geese are hunted? And we want to make sure geese aren't declining in Kentucky."

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